{"id":89,"date":"2025-02-07T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:58:26","slug":"were-never-going-to-give-up-literally-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/were-never-going-to-give-up-literally-never\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re never going to give up. Literally, never."},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall had a great piece<\/a> this week about what the Resistance to the Magats so badly needs right now: Leadership that will send a clear message like Churchill did when he became British Prime Minister in 1940.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Churchill had a clear message: 1) We\u2019re never going to give up. Literally, never. 2) We\u2019re going to battle back with these tools. And 3) Finally, we\u2019re going to win.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes! A thousand times, YES. Where are the Democrats? WTactualF are they doing? It seems like nothing. Literally nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, we\u2019re all demoralized. That is one of the goals of the \u201cshock and awe\u201d attack on our country happening from inside our country. But that is just the starting point. We can feel that, and then we can stand up and get started doing something to stop and change the things that are demoralizing us, right? And we need to never give up. Literally, never.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe it helps to understand, as David Frum explains<\/a>, why this is very different than it was in 2017 for four main reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Trump is not alone this time. He brought a gang of idealogues wth him who are getting straight to work.<\/li>\n
  2. We, the opposition, feel beaten in a way we didn\u2019t in 2016.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Democratic mistakes have given Trump early successes \u2014 Democratic policies have veered left of mainstream. (Not sure how much I agree w\/this, but\u2026)<\/li>\n
  4. The new \u201cinformation space\u201d is perfect for chaos monkeys \u2014 no one pays attention to the \u201cmainstream media\u201d and that media isn\u2019t doing a good job of covering what\u2019s happening, anyway.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I won\u2019t go into my quibbles with Frum\u2019s analysis; suffice to say I agree that fighting the Magats is going to be far harder this time around, for the reasons he cites and more. But the fact that it\u2019s harder \u00a0only makes the work of fighting back more important. It\u2019s do or die time, much like it was for Churchill and Britain. Please, democratic leadership, let\u2019s learn from history. It\u2019s time to stand up and freaking fight!<\/p>\n

    Online, Jason Kottke announced<\/a> that he\u2019s going to continue covering the ongoing coup almost exclusively (I hope not 100% exclusively?), and I am one of many who are glad. I\u2019ve found his links helpful and I agree that anyone with a megaphone right now needs to be shouting from the rooftops about what\u2019s happening so that we can all understand and try to do something about it. Kottke perfectly described this moment:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    Witnessing the events of this past weekend, I felt very much like I did back in March 2020, before things shut down here in the US \u2014 you could see this huge tidal wave coming and everyone was still out on the beach sunbathing because the media and our elected officials weren\u2019t meeting the moment. I believe that if this coup is allowed to continue and succeed, it will completely alter the course of American history \u2014 so I feel like I have no choice but to talk about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Sunbathing time is over.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Josh Marshall had a great piece this week about what the Resistance to the Magats so badly needs right now: Leadership that will send a clear message like Churchill did when he became British Prime Minister in 1940.\u00a0 Churchill had a clear message: 1) We\u2019re never going to give up. Literally, never. 2) We\u2019re going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}